1) Look at the three dictionary entries. What information can you find in each entry?
a. lesson /’ lesn/ n 1 something to be learned or studied. 2. a unit of teaching and learning. 3. a course of instruction. 4. a passage from sacred writing read in a service of worship. 5. something learned from experience. V.trans. to give a lesson to somebody.
b. lesson /’ lesn/ exercise, task; instruction, precept; lecture, lecturing. V reproof, rebuke.
c. lesson /’ lesn/ n 1. (Educ) (a) (class, period) clase; ∼s start at nine o’clock las clases empiezan a las nueve; to give ∼s in sth dar clases de algo. 2. (from experience) lección; there is a lesson to be drawn from this podemos aprender mucho de esto
*The apostrophe (‘) shows stress. The stressed syllable is the one after the apostrophe.
2) Match the entries with the types of dictionaries
• Thesaurus
• Monolingual dictionary
• Bilingual dictionary (Spanish-English / English-Spanish)
Which of these types of dictionary do you often use?
3) Look carefully at the pronunciation of the words below. Practise saying them correctly:
Laugh /lɑ:f/ eyes /aɪz/ example /ɪg’zɑ:mpl/
Keys /ki:z/ kind /kaɪnd/ eighteen /eɪ’ti:n/
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